Your high school Spanish students have been extremely excited about a recent project in your class. Students have been writing scripts and acting out “commercials” in Spanish for imaginary products. You have recorded the commercials on a digital camcorder and uploaded the videos to YouTube. The response has been very positive to these videos, and several students have uploaded them to their personal MySpace pages and blogs to share them with friends.
However, one of your students, Olivia, just forwarded you a comment written in response to one of the videos in which she participated and asks for help translating. The comment is in Spanish and contains several sexual references and curse words. When Olivia clicks on the commentor's username to find out more about the person, she sees videos with sexual content. What do you tell your students about the comment and what Olivia saw, and how do you advise them to respond?
Provide your guidance below
Several things here... Permission to post on YouTube
1. The teacher should have had a parent permission slip signed by a parent to post their child on You Tube
2. With a signed parent permission slip, students should have been advised of the dangers of researching the people who have listed a comment on the Youtube posting.
3. All YouTube videos should be removed immediately if not parent permission was provided.
Teacher Response
1. I would not advise the teacher to translate the comment. I would advise the teacher to communicate to the student that the comments were inappropriate in nature.
2. I would discuss this inappropriate comment with the class as a whole as a learning moment about the risk we take when we post information on the web for the world and when you click on an unknown person who makes a comment you put yourself at risk of seeing images or content that you might not expect.
3. The teacher needs to call the students parents to notify them of the situation.
4. The teacher needs to notify the principal of the building.
5. The teacher should issue an apology for the incident
Lessons Learned
1. The teacher should NEVER post the real names of students on a public website.
2. Always have permission forms signed
3. Many schools have chosen to block YouTube
Alternatives to YouTube
1. The teacher could use TeacherTube instead of YouTube
2. The teacher should have posted the video on a password protected wik (i.e WikiSpaces)
3. The teacher should have posted the video to a 'private' educational website (i.e PBWiki)
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Scenario C: High School Videos
Your high school Spanish students have been extremely excited about a recent project in your class. Students have been writing scripts and acting out “commercials” in Spanish for imaginary products. You have recorded the commercials on a digital camcorder and uploaded the videos to YouTube. The response has been very positive to these videos, and several students have uploaded them to their personal MySpace pages and blogs to share them with friends.
However, one of your students, Olivia, just forwarded you a comment written in response to one of the videos in which she participated and asks for help translating. The comment is in Spanish and contains several sexual references and curse words. When Olivia clicks on the commentor's username to find out more about the person, she sees videos with sexual content. What do you tell your students about the comment and what Olivia saw, and how do you advise them to respond?
Provide your guidance below
Several things here...
Permission to post on YouTube
1. The teacher should have had a parent permission slip signed by a parent to post their child on You Tube
2. With a signed parent permission slip, students should have been advised of the dangers of researching the people who have listed a comment on the Youtube posting.
3. All YouTube videos should be removed immediately if not parent permission was provided.
Teacher Response
1. I would not advise the teacher to translate the comment. I would advise the teacher to communicate to the student that the comments were inappropriate in nature.
2. I would discuss this inappropriate comment with the class as a whole as a learning moment about the risk we take when we post information on the web for the world and when you click on an unknown person who makes a comment you put yourself at risk of seeing images or content that you might not expect.
3. The teacher needs to call the students parents to notify them of the situation.
4. The teacher needs to notify the principal of the building.
5. The teacher should issue an apology for the incident
Lessons Learned
1. The teacher should NEVER post the real names of students on a public website.
2. Always have permission forms signed
3. Many schools have chosen to block YouTube
Alternatives to YouTube
1. The teacher could use TeacherTube instead of YouTube
2. The teacher should have posted the video on a password protected wik (i.e WikiSpaces)
3. The teacher should have posted the video to a 'private' educational website (i.e PBWiki)